Ah in that case the programming guides text is still talking about the
deprecated accumulator API despite having an updated code sample (the way
it suggests making an accumulator is also deprecated). I think the fix is
updating the programming guide rather than adding += to the API.
On Wednesday,
No, I was referring to the programming guide section on accumulators, it
says " Tasks running on a cluster can then add to it using the add method
or the += operator (in Scala and Python)."
On Aug 2, 2016 2:52 PM, "Holden Karau" wrote:
> I believe it was intentional with the idea that it would b
I believe it was intentional with the idea that it would be more unified
between Java and Scala APIs. If your talking about the javadoc mention in
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/14466/files - I believe the += is
meant to refer to what the internal implementation of the add function can
be for
